Extensible and elastic data management services engine external to a storage domain

A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions for performing a method, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to:

• evaluate a service policy to determine that a set of data management services are to process storage operations within a service request, wherein a service redirector identifies a counterpart service that is to reverse a transformation of a service execution result output by a first data management service of the set of data management services
• utilize the service policy to construct a service sequence defining an order with which each data management service of the set of data management services is to sequentially process the service request, wherein the service sequence specifies that the first data management service is to process a first storage operation of the service request to create the service execution result whose transformation by the first data management service will be reserved by the counterpart service;
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• sequentially process the storage operations of the service request using the set of data management services according to the service sequence, wherein an ingest service attaches a service identifier of the counterpart service to the service execution result, and wherein the counterpart service is deployed, for processing the service execution result based upon the service identifier, when the first data management service is deployed.

A computing device comprising:

• a memory comprising machine executable code for performing a method;
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• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to:
• evaluate a service policy to determine that a set of data management services are to process storage operations within a service request, wherein a service redirector identifies a counterpart service that is to reverse a transformation of a service execution result output by a first data management service of the set of data management services
• utilize the service policy to construct a service sequence defining an order with which each data management service of the set of data management services is to sequentially process the service request, wherein the service sequence specifies that the first data management service is to process a first storage operation of the service request to create the service execution result whose transformation by the first data management service will be reserved by the counterpart service;
• and
• sequentially process the storage operations of the service request using the set of data management services according to the service sequence, wherein an ingest service attaches a service identifier of the counterpart service to the service execution result, and wherein the counterpart service is deployed, for processing the service execution result based upon the service identifier, when the first data management service is deployed.